Headline Roundup • July 10th, 2021
Perspectives: Eric Adams
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Brooklyn Borough President and former police captain Eric Adams won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City on Wednesday. Declaring himself as “the new face of the Democratic Party,” Adams has appealed to centric, working-class voters and promoted a balance between "fighting crime and ending racial injustice in policing."
Many outlets across the political spectrum are claiming that Adams' political vision for New York City still remains unclear. Some left-rated voices described Adams as someone with "more alignments than plans"; some right-rated voices labeled the potential future mayor as "a somewhat confounding politician." Center-leaning outlets mostly avoided this political discourse, instead highlighting his current plans to bolster affordable housing, public transit and racial equality.
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Reuters
Eric Adams, a former police captain and the borough president of Brooklyn, declared victory in the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City on Tuesday, all but guaranteeing he will head the largest city in the United States.
He has a formidable task on his hands: Adams will have to steer the city out of economic devastation caused by the pandemic which crippled its sprawling public transit system and deepened longstanding inequalities.
The policies enacted by New York's next mayor could have ramifications that stretch well beyond the Big...
The American Conservative
For a candidate defined by his haters for (perhaps purposeful) contradiction, Adams, in victory, couldn’t have been more clear. “America is failing in running cities,” Adams said, adding he was “the new face of the Democratic Party.”
Adams’ critics used to be to his right, seeing him in the Nineties as a “Brooklyn race hustler,” but with the added wrinkle that he was mobbed up with the NYPD. But in recent years, he’s shown a true pol’s panache, surviving atop the Brooklyn borough throughout the length of his would-be predecessor...
The New Yorker
No one really knows what Eric Adams’s city would be like. In part, that is Adams’s own fault. As David Schleicher, of Yale Law School, pointed out recently, the nominee’s policy agenda consists of “blog posts and platitudes—an afterthought.” But lately the vision thing has been a national problem for the Democrats, too. In this sense, Adams may be, as he declared himself, the new face of the Democratic Party, somebody whose aims are still a little undefined. The mayoral election underscored the main revelation of the 2020 Presidential primaries: that the...
